Inhabitant

!! Implies a more fixed and permanent abode than "resident; " frequently imports many privileges and duties to which a mere resident could not lay claim or be subject.' One domiciled: one who has his domicil or fixed residence in a place, in opposition to a mere "sojourner."* A person may be an inhabitant without being a citizen; and a citizen may not be an inhabitant, though he retains his citizenship.^ A legal voter; as, in a statute requiring that a subscription in aidvof a railroad must be approved by the inhabitants of a town.* In a figurative sense, a corporation may be said to inhabit the place where its members reside; andsince, in a legal sense, it may be an occupier of land, any such corporation in England has been called an inhabitant. But aji ordinary business corporation, keeping an of Sce merely as a place for transacting busmess, cannot be said to inhabit the town where such office happens to be.'

Inhabitancy.

A fixed and permanent abode or dwelling-place for the time being, as contradistinguished from a mere temporary locality of existence. Not the same as "domicil," when applied to successions to personalty.8 See Habitanct. See Belong; Citizen; Domicil; Residence.